It's common to be required to pay for them. At my college the standard plain black hat and gown were $60 (for non-Americans, that's about the price of 8 fast food meals).

To make matters worse, we had to pick up all gowns in person so they could ensure you were only using the ones the school sold. If you didn't pick up a gown, you didn't walk across stage. 2 years of thousands of dollars in tuition and you are not allowed to walk unless you pay $60.

I'm about to get my silver border and I'm in gold now. I'll tell you why. It's because I only solo queue and 9 games out of 10 I get put with either leavers or throwers or people who instalock DPS and then refuse to do any damage.

The latter category normally pick heroes like hanzo or widow, because they know they'll normally get a negative reaction from their team, which is exactly what they are looking for.

The former category may play heroes like hanzo or widow anyway because they probably play more meta heroes on their main so they get a chance to play other heroes on smurf, and also using hanzo or widow has extra tilt factor for the enemy team.

Quickplay is borderline unplayable. No one ever tries to win and everyone plays what they want and does their own thing. It's not like I go into comp two tiers below my actual SR and stomp the enemy on my main, I play roles I know I'm not good at, which is how I got placed at gold in the first place. Besides, the only way to learn another role for comp is by smurfing.

Honestly I find that the higher up you get the more toxicity there is (this is just based on what I've been reading). I'm in gold and although there is some team comp problems overall it is pretty enjoyable however I play on Eu not US.

Different tiers have very different perspectives and understandings of this game.
I played with a Silver player during the Junkenstein event who, despite being over Level 600, didn't know you could upgrade Torbs Turret.

You have a culture that fetishized the male power fantasy to the point where “harem” is a legitimate genre of boys entertainment. And nerds feel attacked when anything they like is criticized (just look at the responses this post is probably going to get).

If this does continue, and I hope it does, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a repeat of gamergate.

Honestly, I don't believe him. If he did this the first time, maybe... but this is the second time he's been banned. Someone like him is bond to do it again. Sure, he'll be good... but players like him always resort to the same player they are.

Can you link a clip of him telling someone to kill themselves? I've watched xQc for a pretty long time and while he calls his teammates bots and trash and retards, I've never heard him tell someone to kill themselves.